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Shabana Mahmoud, Britain's Home Secretary, is to announce measures to curtail aid for asylum seekers,

including an end to guaranteed housing and the withdrawal of financial support for those able to work or with independent means.

Asylum will be granted for 30 months instead of five years.

The governing Labour Party is currently trailing the hard-right reform UK in the polls. Hyundai Motors and Samsung an

electronics giant announced big investments in their home country, South Korea, of $125 trillion,

$86.5 billion, and $450 trillion,1 respectively.

The news came days after a trade deal with America.

In exchange for Donald Trump lowering tariffs, South Korea pledged to invest $350 billion in American

industries. This sparked concern about low domestic investment and the need to boost

exports. Iran's foreign minister claimed that his country was no longer enriching uranium. At a special

summit, attended by the Western press, Abuse Arakchi attributed this to the American bombing of Iran's

nuclear sites in June. Nonetheless, he argued that Iran

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